Arabica-Coffee Futures Slide to 4 1/2-Month Low

Major Trade House

NEW YORK—Arabica-coffee prices tumbled to a more-than-four-month low on Wednesday after a major trade house predicted a larger crop next year from Brazil, the world’s No. 1 coffee producer.

Volcafe Ltd., a unit of commodities trade house ED&F Man Holdings Ltd., said Brazil’s overall coffee production would total 49.5 million bags of beans next season, 10% larger than what the country’s government crop agency says growers there produced this year. Each bag weighs 60 kilograms.